On The Pegs July 2018 - Volume 3 - Issue 7 | Page 85

On The Pegs
turn and it took me a while to get go-
ing,” said Sipes. “I ended up losing Sat-
urday’s round by 1.4 seconds to Stew-
ard, which kind of bummed me out.”
In spite of his snafu on Saturday,
Sipes won seven of the 12 tests over
the course of the two-day event (all six
Cross tests and one Enduro test) and
took the overall win ahead of Grant
Baylor by just over five seconds.
“It feels good to get back on top of
the podium,” added Sipes. “I feel like I
had a good day overall, except for that
one tip-over.”
Steward Baylor topped two Enduro
tests en route to Saturday’s win. How-
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ever, the Tely Energy KTM rider injured
his knee in the opening test on Sunday,
which put a damper on his bid for the
overall win.
“I was riding really good on Saturday
and I think I could have repeated that
performance on Sunday, but in the first
test I was going through one of the
off-camber turns, which we were run-
ning backwards, and I caught a rut with
my front wheel and I jammed my foot
into the ground,” said Baylor. “My knee
swelled up pretty tight and I just had to
coast for the rest of the day.”
Steward finished off the day in fourth
and was fourth overall for the weekend.